Beyond the Black Box: An Assessment of Strategic War Gaming
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Date
December 1987
Summary
War games are currently enjoying a revival of interest and popularity within the American defense community. Strategists, analysts, and policy-makers alike are turning more and more to gaming as a medium for education, planning and discovery. This thesis investigates the nature, utility, and limitations of strategic-level war gaming as a tool for strategic planning and international negotiations. It offers a perspective on gaming different (yet complementary) to that of operations research: war games are viewed as sources of synthetic history, to be studied and interpreted by historical-type methods.
Beyond the Black Box: An Assessment of Strategic War Gaming, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, https://wargaming.hoover.org/view/ark:/54723/h34j0b67c